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Why do election experts oppose hand-counting ballots?


Washington: It takes longer than counting with machines, it’s less reliable, and it’s a logistical nightmare for U.S. elections. A growing number of Republican lawmakers have pushed for switching to hand counts, an argument rooted in false conspiracy theories that voting systems were manipulated to steal the 2020 election. Though there is no evidence of widespread...

Putin has a ‘real problem’: Biden


Washington: US President Joe Biden accused his Russian counterpart of seeking to mess with the 2022 congressional elections by spreading "misinformation". "Look at what Russia is doing already about the 2022 elections and misinformation," Biden said during a trip to the office of the director of national intelligence near Washington, referring to information he receives during his...

Russia tried to engineer Biden’s defeat in 2020: US intel


Washington: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his officials had sought to influence the 2020 US election by “denigrating” Joe Biden with “misleading or unsubstantiated allegations” pushed through people close to Donald Trump, the US intelligence community said in a declassified report. The intelligence report does not name any of these people, but Rudy Giuliani, the personal...

US election: Putin dashes Trump’s Hunter Biden hopes


Washington: Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Joe Biden's son, Hunter did ''made very good money in Ukraine'' but Moscow is not aware of anything criminal about his past business. Putin's rejection of US President Donald Trump's criticism of the Biden family business comes with almost a week to go for the US election 2020...

Ocasio-Cortez wins NY primary elections


 New York: US Rep Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has defeated her challengers in the Democratic primary for New York’s 14th Congressional District, in her first defense of the seat she claimed in a shocking victory two years ago. "When I won in 2018, many dismissed our victory as a "fluke." Our win was treated as an aberration, or...

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Biden berates ‘narcissist’ Trump


Washington: Mounting one of his most scathing attacks against Donald Trump, former US Vice President Joe Biden said the President's narcissism has become more important than the nation's well-being. “He thinks division helps him," Biden said in a speech at Philadelphia’s City Hall. "This narcissism has become more important than the nation’s well-being." Bashing Trump's handling of...